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From: tjt@twitch.UUCP ( T.J.Thompson)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Summary of responses on video hardware for VAX/UNIX
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 14:23:53 EDT
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Enclosed is a summary of the 2 messages I got in response to my recent query
about hardware for capturing and processing video on a VAX under UNIX.
       ..Tim Thompson...AT&T Bell Labs/Holmdel/NJ...ihnp4!twitch!tjt...
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At Waterloo we use the IKONAS RDS-3000 (now made by Adage).  It works
well for graphical output and also performs a real time frame grabber
function.  It allows you to plug in bipolar micro-programmable processors
to do graphical I/O, and they support a 68k board.  We have ported
Harmony (a real time message passing O/S) to the box, as well as writing
a C compiler for the bit slice.  It's a nice development environment but
it might be a little pricy for your needs.
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Datacube Inc. (4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960    617-535-6644)
manufactures a  variety  of  frame grabbers  and image processing
hardware.  Included is a family of boards that can be configured as a
subsystem on the Q-bus  or Multibus  as a  768 x  512 x  24 bit frame
store, 8 bit real time digitization, real time ALU type operations on
8 or 16 bit data.  You can connect it to a VAX with either a Unibus to
Q-bus adapter or a DR-11W port (this has just been developed). 
They also make a family of VME bus based ultra powerful  low cost image
processing boards.
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